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Carl Lawrenz and John Jeske present an argument that a key to correctly understanding Genesis is the historical nature of all 10 of Genesis’ accounts of God’s saving activity. Each author brings a scholar’s knowledge of biblical Hebrew, a high view of Scripture as the verbally inspired and inerrant written Word of God, and a keen understanding of God’s plan of salvation centered in Jesus Christ....

of the divine author generally point to Genesis 10:9; 11:9; 19:22; 32:32. But these comments, though they are all likewise introduced by עַל־כֵּן, are of a different nature from the passage under discussion. They are all etiological explanations: of two city names, of a proverbial saying, and of a prevailing custom. In each instance they were a result of something that had just been related. Of course, when commentators and the NEB analyze יַעֲזָב as the equivalent of a present tense and translate:
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